The Sun. — London, England, 1838-08-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times threatens to "take an early opportunity" of returning to the speech of Lord Lyndhurst upon our com mercial relations. " It - is impossible," says our impartial Contemporary, " to estimate too highly the service rendered to the country at large by this powerful and effective expo sition." This is true enough, though not precisely in the sense in which it is intended, Lord Lyndhurst has cer tainly " rendered a public service" by putting upon record another proof of his readiness to become the unprincipled cat's-paw of anylittleknot of factious intriguerswhose industry " in getting up a case" will enable the Noble and indolent Lord to make a plausible Parliamentary exhibition without the trouble either of collecting facts or inquiring into their authenticity. But a little time ago we heard him declaim a voluminous pamphlet upon the right of appointing sheriffs in Ireland, while it was obvious he had not looked into a single authority upon which the briefless pamphleteer rested his case. So on Tuesday night he takes for his brief a petition concocted by a discarded public ser vant, and, without inquiry or investigation of any kind, assumes the facts and the inferences to be well founded, and employs them as the instruments of a violent attack upon the Government ! Now, if Lord Lyndhurst had taken the most ordinary trouble to inform himself upon the subject on which he spoke, he must have found that the statements to which he pledged himself were, when not un coloured falsehoods, very gross perversions of the truth ; and if he were actuated by any other than party, and very little party, motives, he should have hesitated before be permitted himself to be used by a set of men whose posi tion must have eonvinced him that their object was at least questionable. It is very well for Lord Lyndhurst to tell to that " the petition" is the petition of the respectable merchants of Glasgow. Lord Lyndhurst knows very well by what species of machinery that petition was got up. He knows that personal feelings and per sonal interests were at the bottom of it ; and, had he condescended to examine its details, he must have been convinced that no "respectable merchant" would have put his hand to such a document, except in confiding igno rance of its contents. In the first place, Lord Lyndhurst relies upon a fact proved, he alleges, by a Parliamentary re turn, c onveniently ordered for the purpose. "It appears," says he, " that the total amount of exports for 1836 was 91,000,000/., whilst in the last year the total was only 85,270,0001., making a difference of nearly 6,003,0001." Now, why does Lord Lyndhurst: take the years 1836 and 1837 as the periods of his comparison ? Why not take any of the preceding years, 1833, 1834, or 1835 ? For the simple and sufficient reason that it would have been fair and honest to have done so, and that of course it must have told in fae our of the Government, and not against them. Lord Lyndhurst knows that the year 1337 was unhappily marked by a commercial crisis, not confined to England, and welch even their opnere-nts do not venture to ascribe to any misennduct of Ministers. And yet it is this year, necessarily a year of defalcation, that Lord Lyndhurst selects to prove the decay of our trade under the present Government. If the Noble Lord's test is to be applied at all, let it be applied fairly. Take the earliest period you please subsequent to the accession of the present Ministers, allowing a reasonable time for their measures to have come into operation, and see the effect upon the export trade of the country. Let us take from the year 1832 to 1830, both inclusive, and, iestead of the " official," let us take what every merchent knows to be a fairer criterion, the " declared" value of the goods exported. A comparison of these ye; r this result 18.32 Total amount of Exports £36,450,594 16.33 Out° ••• 1834 ditto 1835 ditto 1836 ditto Here is a steady pngressive increase of our export trade `or five years of the present Administration, shewing an improveroent frmn thirty-six to fifty-three milliens ! Does Lcr.l Lyndhurst imaginr? that any " respectaVe marchant" Na-.till hims2lf t,) the trick witichllo (IA not scimplt to play when ha s:)ogiit to mislead fte pulac oind by a comparison of the export trades of 183, - ; and 1337 ? Now let us try Lord Lyndhurst himself by his oam test. Let us take the three years immediately preceding, Lis ex pnision from office, aall observe the state of our export trale Ia 1827 it was In 1823 it was Li 1829 it wr So that is the live years s ubsequent to the accession of the present Ministers to office there has been a gradual increase in our export trade of nineteen millions, -and during the three years preced:ne the dismissal of the Tories there was a progressive decrease of two millions ! Anil this fact must have been known to Lord Lyndhurst as well as to thwe who " crammed" him for his Tuesday's sp,tech. From this general mis-statement his Lordship docended to some details, through which it may he ne cessarily briefly to.follow him. Lord Lyndhurst makes it a ground of accusation against the Noble Lord the Secre tary for Foreign Affairs that he did not prevent Prussia from establishing the commercial league. " A very li tt l e diplomatic skill , and a l ittle activity," he thinks, would have effected this object. Lord Lyndhurst is un doubtedly a master of the art of pacification in politica and it is difficult to say but his "little activity" might have been attended with as " happy a result in Ger many as elsewhere." But what would he have bad Lord Palmerston do ? Lord Lyndhurst admits that the commercial league is highly beneficial to Ger. many ; and his Lordship is not the man, we are sure, to question the effect of their own interests upon nations as upon individuals. We greatly doubt if even Lord Lynd hurst himself, with all his conciliatory ways, would be able to move the Germans from the adoption of a measure which he admits is serviceable to them, and which every body who knows the German States knows is extremely popular with them. As to the effect upon our trade, it has had none, nor do we think it ever will. This is not the place to enter into the subject ; but such is our convic tion. Tried by Lord Lyndhurst's test, we find no reason whatever to be dissatisfied with the effect of the league. In 1833, the declared value of our exports to Prussia and Germany was 4,499,727/. ; in 1834, 4,683,589/. ; and in 1835, 4,791,2391., which was rather more than its average during the three years proceding 1830. From Prussia, the Noble and Learned Advocate of the Glasgow gourmands passes to Cracow and Poland. With Cracow—a very small and, in a commer cial point of view, a very insignificant town—Lord Lynd hurst must well know we never had a trade of any value, while he seemed to be unconscious of the effect of advert ing as he did to Poland. In the first place, how can he expect to have a trade with Poland when he refuses to take her corn, the only thing she produces, in exchange? Then who, let us ask him, is to blame for the subver sion of Polish nationality? Clearly those who submitted to the partition of Poland by Austria, Prussia, and Russia, and those who afterwards at Vienna, in 1815, allowed a nominal kingdom of Poland to be for ever annexed to the crown of Russia. It is a mere mockery to talk of Polish nationality when that nationality was deliberately placed in the safe keeping . of Austria, Prussia, and Russia—the three powers who e had leagued together to blot the name of Poland out of the map of Europe. If the rulers of England in 1793 and 1815 could not or did not think it worth while to go to war to save Poland from dismemberment, how could it be expected that the Ministers of 1832 could accomplish her resurrection ? As to our trade with the coast of Barbary, upon which Lord Lyndhurst also touched, it has somewhat increased from its former insignificence since the French occupation of Al giers. But even if the reverse had been the case—if, ha ving been great before that time, it had dwindled to nothing since—the fault would have been with Lord Lynd hurst and his colleagues, who in 1830 allowed the French to go and conquer Algiers, without having taken any measures to regulate her subsequent conduct. Every man gifted with the most ordinary fore sight and sagacity must have seen that if that ex pedition succeeded, as it was most probable it would do, France would keep possession of her con quest, if not bound by previous treaty to dispose of it otherwise. The Tory Government permitted the expedi tion to sail without having got any treaty from France, and it is they who are responsible for all the consequences. We have before admitted that the French blockades of Mexico and Buenos Ayres are of momentary inconvenience to our trade ; but if any country is interested in upholding the rights of blockade, that country is England ; and we can not surely deny to France aright which we have ourselves exercised, and may he called upon to exercise again. As to aeho may be the aggressor in these disputes it is no business of ours to determine. We have ourselves many serious com plaints against Mexico and the South American States, and we should not allow France to interfere with us if, driven by the injustice of these States, we were forced to seek t With Circassia everybod redress by our own means. !wows that we had very littletrade to lose ; but even ha s :l th North America, for it been as considerable as that its loss we should be indebted to the Topr G f overnment . () ci f of Adriancp.e, y which, 1829. It was during the Admirnstrat!on that b perlo that Russia obtained the treaty of the ,aid by which alone, she claims a right Black Sea ; and we have yet to learn •If cession of :h o e t t il L i s o r e cl oa e st herdeen Or his colleagues made an ' ent it from any protest against the treaty, or took any steps whatever to pre , : b carried into effect. Before eltsmissiag this subject i we Ilia's it right to exhibit by the same test the state et o(r trade with Greece and with Turk.,y, iocluding our Vade by the Black Sea with Persia. Teesa returns fi al exhibit the following result : A m ount of our export trade with Turkey in 1832 . £915,319 )633 33 4 16;5 lE3j With the Morea and Greek islands we find that our trade progressed during this period at a rate still more rapid and enormous. - Lord Lyndhurst, before he concluded his speech, was pleased incidentally to advert to the state of our relations with Persia. We do not mean to deny the prevalence of Russian influence in that country. But whose is the fault ? Who permitted Russia, in 1826, towage war with Persia, and make th ose con q uests of territory that have been confirmed by the treaty of Toushmantchay? The Tories ; and to the Tories who permitted this is to be ascribed the evil of whatever influence Russia enjoys in Persia, and not to the Whigs, who have done much to counteract it. We cannot take leave of this subject with out adverting to the glaring inconsistency into which the Tories are betrayed by this mode of attack upon Ministers. While they are daily making Parliament and the country ring with accusations against the Government for its in ter ference in the affairs of other countries, in cases in which our interference is in support of great national ob jects, in fulfilment of stipulations of treaties, and without bringing us into war with any foreign power, they condemn them for not interfering in quarrels with which we have nothing to do, and in a case in which our unsolicited and intrusive interference would have a direct tendency to in volve us in a dispute with a great and powerful state ! We should doubtless be ready to break and fully able to cope with France, if our interests or honour were attacked by her ; but, at all events, let us not " in quarrels interpose" without necessity. Far different, however, are the views of the non -interfering Tories. They would just involve us in meddling quarrels with all the world. According to Lord Lyndhurst's system of policy, we ought at this moment to be at war with Russia, about Circassia and Poland ; with all Germany, about Cracow and the Commercial League ; with France, about Algiers ; and if Lord Lyndhurst had not some remnant of filial affection for the land of his birth, he would probably have also found out sonic equally sufficient reason for setting us at loggerheads with the United States I—Morning Chronicle. We have just received a Report of the Committee of Management of the Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, called the " Art-Union of London," for the year 1837-8. It will be recollected that we did our ut most to recommend the establishment of these Art-Unions (previously established in Germany) as advantageous auxi laries and accessories to the Government School of Design established at Somerset House, the necessity of which, with reference to foreign trade, we urged upon the notice of the Government long previous to its institution. We supported both principally in consequence of the irresis tible mass of convincing evidence brought before the " Select Committee of Arts and Manufactures," proving the great inferiority of the staple manufactures of this country in taste of design, in consequence of the un educated condition of the great body of artisans em ployed in those manufactures, and the consequent depreciation of the commercial reputation, and of the financial profits of the country. Under these circum stances we feel a peculiar gratification in calling the public attention to the report of the London Art-Union — from which it appears it is going on in a prosperous man ner, and that there is not only a well-founded hope that it will directly accomplish its own local object of tasteful dif fusion, but that it will also do much good indirectly, through stimulaling by its example the establishment of other and corresponding Art-Unions throughout the pro vincial districts of the country. The names of the Com mittee alone supply pledge that whatever good is derivable from these institutions—as far as regards that desideratum, the " Education of the Public Eye"—will be accomplished untl:...r their s uperintendence and auspices. Among them Win. Ewart, Esq., ex-M.P. for Liver are the names of pool ; B. Hawes, Esq,, M.P. ; John I. Briscoe, Esq., M.P., Sir B. Hall, M.P. ; and H. T. Hope, Esq., M.P.—names which require no comment , as honourably connected with every branch of public education. We extract the follow ing bi ief passages from the report : " The ' Art-Union' was established last year, for the pur pose of extet.ding the taste for the Fine Arts, and of increasi..g t h e encouragement afforded to artists. During the brief ve• riod in %Inch it h as h:'en in operation it has purchas d twenty - e i g h t pictures and drawings from the various public e x . nib,tions, at an aqgregate price of upwards of 1,000 guineas, beside setting ap art a p ortion of its funds for the pur pose' of erg,raviing (exclusively for its members) one of the pictures so purchased. " The claims of this institution may be reseed on three dis tinct gr ounds :—the first , that there is a la rge c l ass o f pe rs o ns much i m pressed with the importance of the Fine Arts, and desirous to encourage them, who, at present, on account of their comparatively limited means, are unable sufficiently to display their good will, by purchasing such works of art as they would wish to rssess. To this class of parsons the Art- Union offers an easy means of at once assisting in the en couragement of deserving artists, and of getting around them, sooner or later, valuable works of art. " There is another class of persons—some of them possessed of ample Means—who, from various causes, and especially _ from the want of having their attention drawn directly and frequently to the subject, have hitherto evinced little or no interest in the progress of the fine arts, and little or no taste for the high gratification they are calculated to afford. To these the Art- Union makes a systematic and recurring appeal ; and offers, too, no inadequate inducement, to recognise the claims which artrat - SlV?je upon them, and to okain for them selves a new and lasting enjoyment. " The third ground on which these associations rest, arises necessarily out of the two former, and will readily be antici pated ; for it is but too notorious that works of art of great merit, arc continually returned unsold from our public exhibi tions, and thrown upon the hands of artists, highly deserv ing of that public encouragement which at present they so frequently fail to meet with. These propositions, your Com mittee fear, are utit too indisputable; nor can it be denied that they afford ample reason for earnest and continued associative exertion." We consider the objects of these institutions as equally important in a commercial as in a social point of view. They tend to promote the profits cif trade and to increase social comforts in an equal degree as they tend to augment the moral refinement of the working classes, and raise the intellectual character of society. On the point of the al leged inconsistency of a union between art and trading profit, we differ entirely with the declaration of the President of the Royal Academy, Sir M. Shoe, who asserts (see Report of the Select Committee of Arts and Manufactures) " that the interests of commerce and of the free institutions it engenders, are hostile to the interests of art, and to the growth of genius." We, on the contrary, maintain that the interests of art and those of commerce are identical ; and we take upon ourselves to say, that the identity has been proved by the irresistible character of the valuable evidence adduced before the Select Committee to which we have referred. The principle of free competition ap plies equally to the encouragement of art as to the en couragement of commerce. The less that both are checked the greater will be their development. They have a right to look to Government for an auxiliar support. But the patriotic encouragement of wealthy individuals of taste should be chiefly depended on. It was such patriotic en couragement as this, by the " Merchant Princes" of Venice and Holland, which raised those Republics to their memorable eminence, and demonstrated the principle for which we have so often contended—tbat commercial free dom is the base of all those intellectual triumphs of art which, subsequently, by the reaction of the " beautiful and the good" on the profitable and the orderly—of the dulce on the utile, confer its most brilliant distinction, and its most enduring performance on commercial freedom.— Morning Advertiser. The intended execution of the two unfortunate women, Ann Byroni and Dinah Jones, for infanticide, at Chester, where Baron Gurney sentenced them to death without hope of mercy, has excited great and general dissatisfaction, more especially as the crimes for which those two miserable victims of seduction are ordered to be strangled on the scaffold are attributed to the demoralising operation of the bas tardy clauses of the new Poor-law—clauses which a re an outrage to Ch r i s tian morals, and which, in fact, offer a premium to the mos t c ruel and profligate libertinism of the male sex. Ri g h t l y did the Bishop of Exeter, in his manly and el oquent rec l ama tions against those un christ i an inevitable consequence predi c t th e i ncrease o f infanticide as an consequence of th e i r operation. An honest and industri ous man was lately comm itt e d for three months to the ignominious labour of the tread-mill, because he was neither willing nor able to support the bastard of a fel low who had seduced and deserted his daughter. Had the daughter, in th e agony o f d espa i r , d es t7o3ed the off spring, she would have been sent to the gallows, and thus the ruffian who ' was the caus e o f a ll th e ev il ould have had the exquisite gratification o f see i ng , at the same time, theinnocent father toiling with bursting heart cn the tread-mill, and the betrayed daughter suspended on the gallows, while he enjoyed his felon-security under the pro tection of the infamous law which was the Whiggre-t ' " boon to the labouring population l" As t o An n Byron,, a petition has been forwarded in her behalf to the Queen, signed by the Rev. C. K. Prescott, the Rector of Stock port, where she resided, and six other clergymen and mini,ters. It also bears the signatures of the May or of Stockport and two county Magistrates, as well as of several professional men and a great part of the respectable shop keepers in favour tradespeople of the town. This is a strong tes timony favour of the character which the unhappy woman had borne previously to her seduction and its conse quent crime. With regard to the other young woman, Dinah -Tones, ordered to be stranAled on the same scaffold, it n't!l be recollect , d that the Jury accompanied their verdict by a !wool niendatiz)n to mercy, which Mr. Baron Gurney publicly declared that lie would not attend t o . Tile voice ot•the jury is as much the voice of the country ints i rceornmenuation to mercy as in its verdict of guilt. If thasa! women aro allowed to prrish on the scaffold their lite lvil be inarked by the sympathy of the people and the execration of the law. While we endeavour to pr:-s nat such sacr,fices of female victims u p o n th e anhallow el alter of man's licentioainess, we ere aware that executions of :I l i; nature will do more towards the apt edy destruction of the Wli ig Poor-Liw, by exciting against it au irresi,iibl.: THE SUN, LONDON , TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1838. force of public indignation, than any arguments not illus trated by the practical examples of such revolting cioselty. A Chester correspondent informs us tha t the day fixed for the execution is Saturday next, and not Saturday week, as stated in a paragraph copied into our Paper from a provincial journal.—Morning Herald. Some notice having been lately taken in Parliament of the refusal of the Dean of Westminster to allow a statue of Lord Byron a niche in the Abbey, the occasion has b s een laid hold of by the enemies of the clergy to pour forth their virulent misrepresentations. Becaus e Lord Byron was a popular poet the refusal to do honour to his memory in one of the principal Churches of the k in g dom is thought to be a very fitting opportunity for directing popular odium against the ministers of the national relig ion. And in the eager ness with which the infidel Radicals rush to take advantage of this opportunity, they quite forget to be consistent even in their habits of calumny. Every one knows that Liberals" a com mon theme of abuse directed by the p seudo against Conservatives, is their alleged bigotry against Roman Catholics, and their - pharasaical—that is, hypo critical—denunciation of flagrant immoralities. ut in this new attack on the Conservative clergy for re fusing to do honour (within the walls of a sacred are re edifice) to the memory of B y ron, the public minded that while Roman Catholics, and persons oc casionally guilty of unchaste writings and immoral conver sation, have been honoured in Westminster who Abbey by imi tative statue and memorial scro ll, the bust of Byron, was not heterodox in his belief, for he-had none, nor more libidinous in his writings than some other great poets, has been authoritatively excluded. Thus, when it suits the purpose of the infidel Radicals to make the Conservative clergy odious to the Roman Catholics, and to those who are given up to the pleasures of sense, there is one story told of the bigotted hatred of the Established Clergy to those who differ from them in opinion; and when it is their object to make the same Clergy odious to such as indulge in idolatry of talent or genius, without reference to prin ciple, then another story is told, showing that the honour which they allow to be pa id to those who are opposed to them in religious belief, they will not allow to one of whom this fault, at all events,could not with literal strictness of truth be asserted. Our opinion is, that the Dean of Westminster rightly discharged an extremely painful duty when he re fused a place in the Abbey to the bust of Lord Byron, and we think that all the reproaches of the infidel Radicals on this subject, and all the laboured yet very frivolous at tempts to show that there is inconsistency, or illiberal ar rogance, in this refusal, are very honourable testimonies to the good conduct of those whom they are intended to injure. If it be the business of a Churchman —as assuredly we think it is—to do honour to those who have coetributed in doing honour to religion, it is very reasonable that though a man may have held points of faith different from them—but yet with them adored a common Deity and acknowledged a common INlediator—it is, we say, very reasonable that, however such a man's errors may have been contended against while living, the service which his genius has done the common cause of religion, should be acknowledged with „gratitude and reverence when he is dead. The name of Dryden has been mentioned by the infidel scoffers, as though it were a gross inson'istency that the . bust of him, a Roman Catholic and a writer of some loose rhymes, should be allowed a place which is denied to the bust of Lord Byron. We scarcely know whether we should attribute such a reproach to bigotry, to ignorance, or to insensibility. The man of let ters who walks with reverential awe around the memorials of G re at Britain's honoured dead which dignify and adorn Westaliu.ster iV4r:ey, thinks not of the unchaste lines of ; bast lie lite; re members its happiest Dryden m Dryden, which were not so much h is v ice as the vice of the thinks n k io s i, not lour of the errorstile us in h e is of fait happiest moments did to religion Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To kingly, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul; and as on high, Those rolling fires discover hut the sky, Net light us here ; so reason's v:lirnal , l;ng ray Was lot not to assure our doui,tf,ll way,' But guide us upward to a better day, And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright Lord ascends our hemisphere, Si. pale grows reason at religion's sight, So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light." We do not find fault with Lord Byron that he has not written so well as this—far no man, perhaps, has ever produced in English rhyme, any thing so fine as these lines of Dryden—but we say that Byron hes never written in a similar spirit of reverence for re ligion ; but alas ! so differently, that we shudder when we think that next after Voltaire, no man has in his day done more injury to the cause of ITU ' gion than did Lord Byron. His genius was a meteor as baleful as it was brilliant. Few, and full of evil, were his days. We should not think that we—laymen, and loit erers in the path of duty ourselves—had any right to blame Lord Byron merely because he was unsettled in re ligious belief, or without any such thing. In his case, as in that of many others, there may be as much to pity as to blame in such a state of' mind. But the moment any nu 11 dares to become an apostle of unbelief, and to use the talents which God has given him, to infect others with the disease of unbelief which he ought to lament in himself, then he is obnoxious to blame, and his proper meed is not our pity, but our opposition and our resentment. Now it seemed to be the g lor y and the joy o f Lord Byron to use his brilliant wit, his tremderendous energy, and his marvellous fel icit y of diction, in or to bring all the world into the same state of scornful unbelief as himself. In none of his writings does revealed reli gion appear to be allowed a mo ment's respect, and though his writings are not absolutely atheistical, yet they cer tainly lead to the conclusion that he, the most conspicuous literary man of his time, with the best opportunities of good information, regarded all questions concerning reli gion, just as they might have been re g arded when Cicero discussed the nature of the soul, and Horace a mused the polite Augustus with deductions of Deity from the noise of thunder heard when the sky was clear. Is it right that the bust of such an author should be set up in one of our principal Churches ? But to come to more practical mat ters, and to strengthen our argument with the aid of great critical authority, let us attentively consider the character which Lord Jeffery has given of Lord Byron's writings, and that not at the beginning, but near the close of the great Poet's career. The grand chief of literary Whiggism writes thus of Lord Byron's works generally " The charge we bring against Lord Byro n is, that his writings have a tendency to destroy all belief in the reality of virtue—and to make all enthusiasm and constancy of affection ridiculous ; and that this is effected, not mer el y b y direct maxims and examples of an imposing and seducing kind, but by the constant exhibition of the most proflgate heartlessness, in the persons of those who had been transiently. represented as actuated by the purest and most exalted e motions—and in the lessons of that very teacher who had been, but a mo ment before, so beautifully pathetic in the expression of the loftiest ccaceptions. Under some strange misapprehensiors as to the truth, and the duty of proclaiming he has it, exerted all the powers of his pow e rful mind, to co nvince his readers, both directly and indirectly, that all enobling pur suits and disinterested virtues, are merely deceits or illusions — hollow and despicable mockeries for the most part, and at best, but laborious follies. Love, patriotism, valour, devotion, constancy, ambition—all are to be laughed at, disbelieved in, and despised I—and nothing is really good, so far as we can gather, but a succession of dangers to stir the blood, and of banquets and intrigues to sooth it again. If this doctrine stood alone with its examples, it would revolt more, we be lieve, than it would seduce; but the author of it has the un lucky gift of personating all those sweet and lofty illusions, and that with such grace, and force, and truth to nature, that it is impossible not to suppose for the time that he is among the most devoted of their votaries—till he casts off his charac ter with a jerk—and the moment after he has moved and ex alted us to the very height of our conceptions, resumes his mockery at all things serious or sublime, and lets us down at once on some coarse joke, hard-hearted sarcasm, or fierce and relentless personality—as if to show Whoe'er was edified, himself was not.'" _ . CRIMINAL COURT-MONDAY. We ask again whether there be any illiberality in refusing a niche in a church to the statue of a man whose writings have been thus described by a literary Liberal of the first eminence ? We should be delighted to see the bust by Thorwaldsen in any place dedicated merely to the honour of human genius ; but in a sacred edifice, dedicated to the honour of revealed religion, the bust of Byron would be out of place•--Morning Post. release. He had spent the money allowed him, and had ob tained no benefit. The debts had been released, and he now applikd for a creditor to be allowed to receive the dividends on the debts he had purchased. The application was resisted on the ground that the debts had been released. i It was urged that the insolvent had equity for the appli cation ; he was in distress, and had walked up from Bradford to London on several occasions. It was admitted that he had acted in a " very foolish" manner. The COURT said they had no power to assist him ; he had by his own act taken their jurisdiction away. It was to be regretted that he had acted in the manner he had done. —Application refused. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT BILL. Mr. WOODROFFE applied on the part of an insolvent, who had been a long time in prison, for leave to file his schedule. The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER significantly asked whe ther the insolvent was in execution ? Mr. WOODROFFE said there was no doubt he was. Many had been disappointed ; they expected the Bill would have gone much further. - CHIEF COMMISSIONER—The man has petitioned. Mr. WOODEOFFE—He has, and cannot take advantage of the Bill; be is now anxious to proceed. The COURT granted the application. ATTORNEYS ♦ND THEIR " AGENTS." A case came before the Court on Saturday in which it ap peared gross negligence had occurred. The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER took occasion to re mark on the " agents" employed by attorneys who lent their names to them. The attorneys were appointed on a recom mendation from two barristers. They stated that they meant to practice bona fide, but it was well-known they were ciphers and shadows of their agents. [The Commissioners will have an opportunity of making strong rules to protect prisoners. It is a fact that there are more " agents" than attorneys. The agents secure the clients, arrange for terms, and the " attorney" is called in to take the retainer and witness the schedule. He secures a certain fee for his trouble, the rest is pocketed by the agent. The Court have made several rules on the subject, but others are required.] THE QUEEN V. JOSEPH REITTERHOFEER, ALIAS COUNT RUTTER LAW INTELLIGENCE. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, AUG. 20. The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER succeeded on Saturday in disposing of the arrears of motions, and the Court on its ris ing adjourned until Monday, the 24th of September. The sittings have been fixed up to the 9th of October, a , or d ers issued. It is then expected another adjournment will take place. The Learned Co mmissioners will d uring the vaca tion frame the new rules under the Imprisonment for Debt Bill. IN THE MATTER OF ABRAHAM WEBSTER. In this case an application was made on the part of the in solvent, a poor old man, for i the assistance of th e C ourt u nder novel circumstances. The nsolvent had been a cotton maim ficturer at Bradford. He had twice been disch arge d un der thc Act. E:e was e ntitled, under the will of hi s re l at i ve , t lift Rev. Dr. Jobson, to an annuity. The. a Doctor h e ld a l ucr , t ive office in Oxford Colleg e, and left his wealth -flunig his poor iits-isoclrvee,nlittorhs. A ad an annuity larg e sum had tY of 26/• a-year , 711licz•umulated recently , and a question was rased, m ie ti l er it 1 'A ic ti li wts' passed T t l :) e h sed to the cred'tor3 of the first or second estat e . Th e par ties co mmenced a Chan cer y suit, but agreed t o di v id e the money, anti, ia considerat ion of the distre,sed condition of W,b ster, kindly altowed him 501.; he then retarned homer into Yo, ksh ire, and set about purchasing some of the debts at 2':. 6 - l• is die pound, in the hope that he could obtain a release, an:: then his i.:.nnuity of 24. , a year would revert to hi. n . 1-o did not consult a professional man, but purchased sure of t 1;,.. &A A,: un ler the two Ltta . e , , and took a release. Other ere clitof.; reusutt to come into his terms, and he could not get a POLICE AND JOHN TECTEN. It will be recollected that true bills for conspiracy and libe were found against the above defendants two Sessions ago. on the prosecution of the Marquis of Downshire, in whose family the first-named defendant lived for some years as courier and house-steward. Soon after the death of the late Marchioness, it appeared that he commenced a series of libels against the family, of the most atrocious description, asserting that he had been privately married to the deceased Lady Mary Hill, daughter of the Marchioness, and that she had made a will in his favour, which the family had either held back or destroyed. Having failed to extort money by means of private threats of further exposure, he caused a number of handbills, to be printed and openly placarded through the streets some months ago, in consequence of which the present prosecution was adopted, and true bills having been found against Reitter holler, as the principal offender, and also against John Teuten, the printer of the libels, and other parties concerned in vend ing and circulating them, bench warrants were issued against them, and last Session three of the defendants, namely, two bill-stickers and a bookseller named Fagniot, surrendered, and having stood their trial, the latter defendant and one of the bill-stickers were found guilty, and were sentenced to be im prisoned for separate periods. The defendants, Reitterhoffer and Teuton, did not appear, and the case against them conse quently stood over until they could be apps ehended on the bench warrants, or surrender to take their trial. This morning, as soon as the juries were sworn, Mr. C. PHILLIPS, addressing the Recorder, called his Lord ship's attention to the case, and said that he appeared with his Learned Friend, Mr. Clar'eson, as Counsel for the Marquis of D twilshire, and he was desirous of calling the attention of the Court to a trick which the defendant Reitterhoffer, had prac tised with a view to evade the consecinences of the prosecu tion which had been instituted against him. His Lordship would remember that three of the defendants were tried and convicted last Session, but neither Reitterhoffer nor Teuten thought fit to appear, although they had given notice of their intention to do so. The Marquis of Downshire at the close of the last Session proceeded to Germany, and the fact of his probable absence from England having come to the knowledge of Reitterhoffer , he too k means before his Lordship's departure to serve him with fresh notice of trial for this Sess'oa, sup posing no doubt, that being in Germany, he could not attend the Court, and that consequently the prosecution would fall to the ground. The Marquis of Downshire, however, being de termined to follow up the prosecution, no matter at what per sonal inconvenience, left Germany for the purpose of attending the trial, but what was his surprise when, on arriving in town on Saturday last, he received a second notice , which had been served on Mr. Humphrey, his solicitor, countermanding the notice of trial previously given. The RECORDER observed that the notice was not regular, inasmuch as it ought to have been served by a solicitor. It appeared further that no address was attached to the notice. Mr. C. PHILLIPS said that the trick altogether was quite palpable, and it was certainly a fresh aggravation of the scan dalous conduct pursued by Reitterhoffer to bring the Marquis of Downshire a distance of upwards of 500 miles at a serious inconvenience on purpose to be laughed at by him and his con federates. The RECORDER—But how can I assist you ? Perhaps, before the Session closes, the defendants may think proper to surrender. Mr. C. PHILLIPS replied, that there was very little chance of that, and it would be exceedingly hard if the Marquis should be detained in London, to await a result so very un likely. The RECORDER—Are there not bench warrants out against both of the defendants ? Mr. C. PHILLIPS—Yes, my Lord, but we cannot catch them, and the difficulty which we feel is this, that as soon as the Marquis, on his return to Germany, is about to step into the steam-boat, he may be served with a new notice of trial for next Session, and be compelled to pay another visit to Eng land, when the same trick may be played upon him as has been done in the present instance. The RECORDER.—You look upon the notice, then, as a sort of ruse? Mr. C. Pmemes.—Undoubtedly we do, my Lord. We are quite aware that the scheme of Reitterhoffer was this—to stand his trial in case the Marquis should not return from Ger many, in which event he must have been acquitted, there being no prosecutor. The RECORDER. —Holy stands the other defendant? Mr. CLARKSON. —Teuten, my Lord, has also given no tice to take his trial this Session, but the notice is bad, bee cause it was sent to Mr. Humphrey, the solicitor for the pro secution, whereas it ought to have been served upon the Marquis of Downshire in person. His Lordship has shown every desire to bring the parties to justice; and it would be hard indeed if his object should be toiled by a notice such as this. The RECORDER said he was not at all sure that the notice could be considered legal, there being no address by which the party serving it might be found. How was the prosecutor to know, under such circumstances, that the notice was genuine? Mr. C. PHILLIPS.—AII that we arc anxious for, my Lord, is, that we may not be again taken by surprise by a trick similar to the present. Your Lordship is perhaps aware that there has lately been a marriage in the Marquis of Down shire's family, and it would be very desirable that the Marquis should return at once to Germany without being again annoyed by a sham notice of trial. The RECORDER asked if Reitterhoffer had not been ordered by the Court to find bail as soon as the Grand Jury found the Bill against him? Mr. C. Pitmen's replied in the affirmative. He was or dered to put in bail, himself in 5001., and two sureties in 2501. each, but he never came forward to do so. The RECORDER finally directed that the notice of trial served upon the Noble prosecutor should be put upon the file of the Court, so that in case the defendant should make a second attempt of the same description, the Court would take care that no undue advantage should be taken of the absence cf the Marquis of Downshire from England. In the mean time the Recorder advised Mr. Phillips to employ some other officer in the case, who would be more likely to execute the bench warrants. Mr. PHILLIPS.—I assure your Lordship that no exertions shall be spared in order to secure the parties. The matter dropped here. CASE OF THE CONVICT RICKEY. This man, who, it will be remembered was tried and found guilty at the last session of the wilful murder of Sergeant Hamilton of the 12th Lancers, at Hampton Court Palace, and who subsequently received a respite, has been considered a fit object for the exercise of the Royal clemency. On Friday evening last a communication from the Home Office arrived at the office of Mr. Clarke, Clerk of the Central Criminal Court, announcing that her Majesty had been graciously pleased to grant a free pardon to the convict, on condition of his leaving the country for life, but the colony was not named, nor will it be known until his arrival at the Hulks. Immedi ately upon receiving the pardon Mr. Cope, the Governor of N e wgate, repaired to Rickey's cell, for the purpose of com municating to him the supposed joyful intelligence. The con vict, however, received the communication without exhibiting the slightest change of countenance, and his demeanour was m arked by the same apathy of manner and apparent indiffer ence to life by which he has been distinguished in a remark able degree both before and since his trial. Mr. Cope, per ceiving how little moved he appeared to be, said to him, A r e you not glad, Rickey, to hear such good news ?" He merely nodded his bead in reply, adding, " Yes, 'fa a good t hi n g ; but," said he, " what is to become of me when I get out—what can I do?" Mr. Cope answered, " Oh, never m i n d, the Government will find you emploNment." A few cases were tried in the course of the day, but they presented no feature of public interest. CROYDON PETTY SESSIONS Mr. Drummond, a profes - ,iond gentleman, yesterday applied to the Magistrates at the Town-hall, Croydon, on behalf of a person named Boyd, whose poperty adjoins the line of the London and Croydon Railway, for an order upon the Directors o f the Company to build gites for the convenient occupation of his property. Mr. Burchell, Solicitor to the Company, resisted the ap plication, on the ground that the road which had been usod before the formation of the railway to the property of Mr. Drummond's eent was not a le g al right of way. 'lnc! Bench, after Laring arguments for and against the a pplica • lion, said the mltter wQs one of great importance, awl the , Yi.tgist:ates would take time to consieer the case fully before pronouncing a decision. 111ANSIO1Y-HOUSE. The Lord Mayor received a note from a lady in Florence, inclosing the following lines and a check upon Drummond's Bank, addressed to the unfortunate Major Carpenter, of No. 24, Dorset-place, whose misfortunes were detailed a short time ago in the newspapers under the head of " Mansion- House":— " The writer of this letter having read in Galignani's news paper the melancholy account of Major Carpenter's misfor tunes, takes the liberty of inclosing a draft on her banker, which she hopes Major Carpenter will make use of, unless he has in the meantime received such substantial assistance as his sufferings deserved, and to such an amount as to render the trifling sum of the draft of no importance. She regrets that her means are not equal to her wishes to assist Major Car penter, but she trusts that that which so affected her will base the same effect on others, especially on the unsophisticated heart of that young creature who, true to nature, sprung from her throne to assist poor old Lord Rolle. " The writer particularly requests Major Carpenter will not think of writing to thank her for what, in truth, deserves no thanks ; indeed, a letter directed according to the signa ture of the draft would not find her, as she bears another name." Major Carpenter, in a letter expressing his gratitude to the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress for their humane exertions in his unfortunate case, stated that the check was signed " Mary Light," and was for 121. His LORDSHIP said, that, besides a few contributions which had been enclosed to him and remitted to Major Carpenter, he had sent that unhappy petitioner to her Majesty the sum of 5/ , which had been collected by the Lady Mayoress after dinner one day at the Mansion-house in half-crowns and shillings, and that her Ladyship would gladly receive contributions of any amount, however small, for the benefit of the unfortunate officer and his family. HATTON-GARDEN. Denis Cronan was finally examined charged with having assaulted Margaret, his wife, by kicking and beating her about the head and body so as to endanger her life. Dow sing, the officer, stated that the wife was in a dreadful state, but she had escaped from the hospital to avoid prosecuting the prisoner. The particulars have already appeared before the public. Mr. Witham severely lectured the prisoner upon his brutal conduct, and regretted that in the absence of erideuce he was obliged to discharge him. MARYLEBONE. Yesterday Mr. _Higgins, who for some time past has held the situation of Superintendent of the Great Western Railway Police, was brought up in custody and placed at the bar before Mr. Hoskins and Lord Montford, charged with having, while in a state of intoxication, assaulted Mr. Gilles, a painter, residing in Burn-street, Paddington. After the complainant's deposition had been taken Mr. Hoskins said to the defendant, this is a disgraceful situation for a man employed over the police to appear in. What have you to say for yourself? Defendant—He struck me first, Sir, and I returned the blow ; but allow me to say this affair has arisen entirely in consequence of my having some time ago discharged from the books a man named Mayband, who, I feel quite certain, sent the complainant and his witness to the public-house on purpose to annoy me. The parties denied that such was the case, and the defen dant was ordered to pay 40s. far the assault, together with 55., the drunkard's penalty. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. JEALOUSY. Mr. Powell, Surgeon-Dentist, No. 21, Princes-street, Hanover-square, accompanied by Jane Adams, his servant, presented himself before Mr. Chambers, and stated that the girl, under his directions, had taken out a warrant against a lady, who had a day o r two back driven up to his door in her carriage, called the girl to her, and given her a black eye; but although the lady had had notice from the officer to attend before the bench, she had not made her appear ance, and he therefore wished to kno what further steps he was to take on behalf of the aggrieved w party. The complainant said she had formerly lived in the lady's service in Bath and in London; but she left of her own accord on account of the lady's violent temper, and her jealous dis position. Her mistress had married a gay young man, about twenty-two or twenty-three years of age, she herself being upwards of double that age. Her mistress did not live hap pily with her youthful husband, being perpetually tormented with jealousy ; and at times her behaviour, under the influ ence of wine, was of a very unlady-like description. She was jealous of complainant, and accused her of carrying on an improper correspondence with her husband. Partly on this account complainant had, of her own accord, left the service of Mrs. Harvey, and had engaged with her present master, with whom she had been several weeks. Tormented with groundless jealousy, her late mistress had called at her new situation, accused her of keeping up a correspondence with her husband, and finally inflicted a blow, for which the war rant had been obtained. Just as the office was about to close, Mrs. Harvey made her appearance, and was placed in front of the bar. She alleged as an excuse for not attending before that business of a very pressing nature had detained her. Jane Adams, on being sworn, said that about five o'clock on Friday afternoon Mrs. Harvey's carriage drove up to her master's door, and the coachman knocked. She attended the door, and when Mrs. Harvey saw her she called out, ‘" Oh, you are the young lady I want to see - where is my husband?" Complainant declared she did not know where Mr. Harvey was, upon which the defendant replied in a rage, " You have been seen with him recently, and I will finish you for it ;" at the same time rising up in the carriage and striking her a severe blow on the eye, which blackened it. Complainant went into the house, and the carriage drove away. Mr. Powell said he saw the girl's eye a few minutes after the transaction had occurred, and it bore evident proofs of having been struck with considerable violence. Mrs. Harvey, who appeared about fifty, and was dressed in the height of fashion, denied that she called at Mr. Powell's house to inquire about her husband. She had called respect ing some property, which she suspected the complainant to have taken. While speaking to the complainant on the sub ject, she put her finger up, hut she did not touch heF. she saw A young female, companion to Mrs. Harvey, said no blow struck. She noticed that Mrs. Harvey was much ir ritated at the complainant, and she begged of her to moderate her temper. The coachman also swore that he did not see Mrs. Harvey strike the complainant. The complainant pointed to her eye, which still retained proofs of the blow, which she asserted Mrs. Harvey inflicted. Mr. Powell proposed that Mrs. Harvey should pay ten pounds to some charity. Mrs. Harvey—The Magistrate said the fine would not be more than five pounds. I'll pay five pounds, or fifty, now, if the Magistrate thinks proper. Mr. CHAMBERS—I cannot allow you, Madam, to carry matters with such a high hand. Ido not know that I will fine at all. The case shall be submitted to-morrow to a second magistrate, and then we will decide whether to fine or send the charge to the Sessions. All parties retired, upon the understanding that they were to appear again to-day. As Mrs. Harvey lett the office, she said in a loud voice to the defendant, " Good morning, common Jane Adams." Q UEEN- S Q UA RE. Ellen 111‘Namara, a middle-aged woman, from the Sister Isle, was yesterday afternoon charged with being drunk, and was ordered to pay the fine of ss. Ann Sellers, a middle-aged woman, was yesterday charged with having several times attempted self-destruction. Defendant's husband, who was in attendance, declared that her faculties had been much impaired since the death of a favourite child. He was unable to pnrsue his labour at this time, being entirely occupied in looking after her. Mr. BURRELL said he could not assist him. Defendant was discharged. UNION-HALL. THE SUSPECTED MURDER AT MlTCHAM.—Yesterday, the relatives of a man whose body was found in a field between Mitcham and Streatham, and who was supposed to have met with his death by unfair means, attended for the purpose of getting the verdict set aside. They said that if the verdict of " accidental death" were set aside, and one of " murder by some person or persons unknown" were substituted, they had no doubt but a discovery of all the circumstances attend ing the death of the unfortunate man would follow. The Magistrate, in reply to the application, said that he had no power to reverse the verdict of a jury, and that it was his opinion the case was well investigated before they had come to such a decision. LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday Witt:TneaQswortit, a young man of gentlemanly appearance, whose friends are of the highest respectability, and well known on the turf, was placed at the bar before Messrs. Combe and Hardwick, on a charge of obtaining clothes, amounting to 341. 17s. 6d., from Mr. James Woods, a tailor, in Howland-street, Fitzroy-square, on a fictitious checque. The prisoner acknowledged that he bad pawned the prin cipal part of the property for 4/. 10s. Mr. Inspector Symonds, into whose custody the prisoner was given, produced the checque, which was as follows : " August 18, 1838. " To the Manager of the Northern and Central Bank of England, Liverpool—Pay Mr. Woods, or Bearer, thirty-four pounds seventeen shillings and sixpence. " 34/. 17s. 6d. " W. BEARDSWORTII." The prisoner, in reply to the charge, admitted that he was noo.aware that there was such a bank, and that he had merely selected it from a list in the Directory as the one to draw upon. He also admitted that he had never done business at the bank in question, nor had lie at any time any money lodzed; but still he said it was not his intention to defraud Mr. Woods of a farthing, as be purposed writing to his friends, who. he felt satisfied, would at once honour the cheque. He farthir said be was compelled to pledge the articles through his being without any money, and was ultimately remanded until Friday next. POWERFUL 'RAILWAY ENGINE.—Last week, the largest locomotive engine ever made in Leeds, was tried cn the Leeds P.nd Selby 1.1:61,vay, previous to its being sent to the Paris and Versailles Railway, in France. With only one car riage and the tender, this engine travelled at the rate cf sixty mile; an hour, and at the rate of twenty miles per hour, w i t h 140 tine, both on the level part of the line. • In conse que:xe of some improvement in the fire-box, this ermine s:'crns to do its work with ease, as during the trial it prod; ced more steam than was required, and with the fire-door kept open.—Doncaster Gazette. GENCE. IMELANCHOLY FATE OF A POOR STROLLING PLAYER AND HIS SON. ( From the Inverness Courier.) About eight or nine months since, when autumn was fading into winter, and, in the words of the Scottish song, " When the wan leaf frac the birk tree was fa'ing,” a poor strolling player, his wife, and two children—a tine boy and a girl—arrived at Lairg, in the county of Sutherland. The inhabitants are literally " few and far between," sePa: rated on all sides by rng , cd mountains, which impart a feel ing of utter solitude and seclusion to the scene. A cluster of cottages, however, lie about the manse on the south side of Loch Shine, and there are huts scattered among the hills , which, though they at first elude observation , are rife with inmates. The player resolved to try a performance, but, it being Saturday evening, he deferred astonishing the simple people till Monday or Tuesday. He put up at the inn, and the respectable landlord—Mr. Mackay—informed us that the in telligence and information of the man made a strong impression on all who conversed with him. The poor wanderer, how ever, was destined not to gratify the people of Lairg by " fretting his hour" upon their stage. He set out towards Altnaharrow to rouse the country and collect an audience, taking with him his son, to bear him company over the moun tains. Neither of them returned—the" play" was, of course , postponed—and day passed after day without bringing anY tidings of the actor or his boy. The wife and daughter de parted, and the circumstance was forgotten, when last w eek-- - on a solitary part of the farm of Shines—the bodies of a man and boy were discovered in a state of great decomposition. The occurrence was noised abroad, and the mouldering remains were identified by the people of Lairg as those of the unfortunat e stroller and his son. It has been conjectured that they los t their way among the hills, and were overtaken by a storm which they had not strength to resist. They had ap parently sank down on the ground exhausted, and the boys head was supported by his father, over which he had thrown a part of his coat, as a protection from the night or the storm. The man's name and history are unknown—and thus perished the lone outcast of the drama, with his unfortunate sun, in a land of strangers, amidst the wildest scenes of nature, and un der circumstances as touching as any which have drawn tears or applause on the stage. What a contrast to the gaY and crowded theatres in which the poor player had probably performed in his better days l A MAN HANGED FOR A LIBEL.—The StandaY N having, in the simplicity of its heart, asked. " when was an,' one hanged in England for mere libel ?" The Learned Editor is referred to the case of John Twyn, a printer. vril° was tried before Lord Chief-Justice Hyde, A.D. 1663, f° l. , J mblishing a hook entitled " A Treatise of the execution 0' Justice," &c., and being found guilty thereof, hanged as a traitor. This took place in the reign of that lascivious, pr°' fane, and heartless profligate Charles 11., for whose restore' tion our " Book of Common Prayer," on the special groun d of reverence for righteous and religious kings , is still pol luted with an appended form of than ks g ivin g . The Cif cling logician of the Standard may say that Twyn was eon demned for high treason, not for a mere libel. The indictme nt was certainly for treacon,but the overt act was the publication els book which maintained the doctrine that Magistrates are accoun l s able to the people for the due execution of their office ; an for that be was hanged, drawn, and quartered, refusing to the last, with admirable constancy and honour , to give up the author of the libel. The great constitutional lawyer is,'n ° passed the sentence, with a brutality not unworthy of a Jett . e : ries or a Toler, in answer to his cry for mercy, exclaimed writ virtuous indignation, " I would not intercede for my, own f father in such a case." Has the Standard any recollectio n the case of a youth of twenty, named Aikenhead, who wa s f hanged at Edinburgh, in 1696, under that guardian angel ° civil and religious liberty, King William, for denying' th Trinity ? The prosecutors in that case were members of tt University of " Auld Reekie."—Scots Tines. a IMPRISONMENT FOIL DEBT Broug,ham has at last succeeded in getting this Bill pas" For many years he has most earnestly worked to get that B,i. teration made in the law which is accomplished by this Bi l ; . ; Execution may now be taken out against, not merely go": and chattels, but every kind of security which a debtor posse ses, and the whole of his real estate, instead of a portion 0 ' 7: may is taken in execution. Formerly a man with his poe lVi : full of money, with thousands in the funds, with mortg a g e ' fur a vast amount of money, with his table loaded with FM chequer Bills, could not he compelled to give up any por ti l of his we:kii to pay his debts. An astounding stat° °, l thiegs. All this is remedied by this Bill. The Bill, I ° 7 the mole in which it has been altered, is defective; but 411 still a great and vast improvement in the law, and Li e . r o Brougham deserves great commendation for his share in t improvement.—Bath Guardian. WOOL EXPORT.—The exportation of wool /W I our port, which has this week been very considerable , c () ., n i ; tinues to attract much attention. In consequence o f the hlb price offered by the staplers, few or none of the farmer s ha l retained their stock for better terms, therefore it has ariiv% here for exportation in greater quantities than on forine,e_! years; for some days lately the quay has almost exclusiv e l)] been occupied with wool-packs, which have this week be; shipped off in four vessels, their cargoes amounting to abott 060 bales, and as each bale contains from eighteen to twea lo stones each. the value of that export amo unts to 03° 25,0001.—Berwick Advertiser. j r al DRINK's DOINGS.-On Wednesday, about past two p.m., W. Allen, aged 24, was found I , ing 0 : 0 ,. - road, as though be were dead. On Lei n removed, .. discovered that he had taken about one-third part of an ci le t e . oxalic acid ; the stomach pEm ounce bottle of water, in which was about half an nun pith re used with effect ; be howeverstill P and . antidotes we e$ "- • complains of great heat to ban throat and inside. L a tt er l y, All en , w h o i s a single man , been dejected in s pi r i t , no d ou b t f rom excessive drinking ."' Nottingham Review. N v A n obV AMERICAN PATENT.—Patent pia water-proof hat, ma d e o f th e s kin of a mad dog, warrantnot to take water. ---- ......"-,..1 - ' CROSBY-HALL WINE ESTABLISHAI EN n . 35, Bishopsgate-street-within.—CURRALL and SON bee a s, vite public notice to their stock of Old Bottled and Draught being Their Crusted Ports are of superior quality and flavour, , w itll shipped by houses of high reputation at Oporto, and bottle sedulous attention. Their Sherries also, with every other deaticet tion of White Wines, are .of equal character ; 'and in Pr,, and Wines the same attention has been paid to quality. Currao, t he Son, being desirous to secure tlaat patronage which articles ° I re first quality, at fair and remunerating profits, will maintain, spcetfully submit the annexed list of cash prices : gs e °s PER DOZ. I P- 40 Port, from the wood .9s to 33s Rota Tent ................... 50 Ditto, three years in bottle... 36s Cape Wines 16 , e° ‘2.0 0 Ditto, older, rich, and superior 42s Maseu .... ................ 0, Ditto, very old, in wood and French and Rhenish V VIO 60 1 bottle Sherry, excellent dinner wine 9.3s , Pink ditto ditto .......... •• 72; Superior Sherries 36s Pink creaming Champagne ... 1,,! Sherry, very fine, pale, and !White ditto ditto .............. ~' brown ... 42s to 46s Claret 6os ' 33 , Ditto, very delicate, and ex- !Ditto, in pints ................. .4 0 tremely pale s2s' Moselle .....................8,.... •• 60i t ° Ditto, old brown, (rare quality) 52s Sauterne ... 4 46 , t° 60° Madeira Madeira (by way of Calcutta), Wines per Gallo n• "..,, O. 1'2 5 O. first quality 63s to 66s Port 13g to t... n 0 Ditto, in pints 33s Sherry is iis Bucellas (finest quality) Lisbon and Mountain ...... ... 30s1, Marsala .......... g.O •• , U Vidonia (old) Marsala Bottles, 3s. per dozen ; hampers, liper dozen. ........_-.---' r 0' SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVI— r ti• ' Pat te Cottage Pattern. M e l on P a tt ern . King s„ 0 Tea Pot ...£lO 15 0 :1.1 5.0 £l2 v 0 Sugar Basin 6 0 0 6 6 0. Milk Ewer. 4 0 0... 4 4 0 b 10 „ 0 Coffee Pot.. 13 13 0 l3 13 0... ...... .. lb ~ The same strongly Plated, with Silver Edges. 0 Tea Pot .... 2 10 0 2 18 0 3 10 0 Sugar Basin 2 4 0 2 8 0 2 14 0 Milk Ewer. 1 16 0...........2 0 0 2 4 Coffee Pot.. 2 18 0 3 0 0 3 19 o 0/ The ground floor, also the first, second, and third floors, are t.tet,l, up as Show Rooms. Selections may be made from a most el sive variety of ver anlated anufcture. A Pamphlet Si with a detailed list M of prices and drawings of 1 :: i ll articles, and also with drawings of the above services, may , gratis, or will be sent in answer to post-paid application. . b, an d T. COX SAVORY, Working Goldsmith, Silverstult,oo6l Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London (Seven Doors from '-' church-street) ___./%e _ - BIRTHS. Wils°2l' il On the 17th inst., at Turnham- green , th e l a dy of ..--• Esq., of a son. , s s o r. o' . On the 17th inst., at T o tt en h am , M rs . J o h n Beadnell, °l o ot 5 At the Oaks, Su rrey , on t h e 16 t h i nst. , Lady Grey,of a toilt .aC 1. ' On the 15th inst., at Wilton Castle, the lady of Chas. Esq., of a daught er . _/ ----- MARRIED. geil .oe On the lith inst., at Christ Church, St. Marylebon; t bet i Connell, Esq., of York-gate, Regent's-park, to Miss u til/e r t, Biggs,•sister of Major-Gen. J. A. Biggs, of the Bengal /4. .ik i, On the 18th inst., at St. George's Hanover-square , 1 rii ,p o gustus, youngest son of Sir T. Neave, Bart., of Dag, nB , Bla c k' Essex, to Ann Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Ai' • l i t. e Esq., of Gidea Hall, in the sam e coun ty . j el On the 18th inst., at All Souls' Church, Langham - t lac Te ' rel 3l l ' ' Bury Dasent, Esq. ,D. C. L., barri s t er - at -l aw o f t h e Aliclw e crerA to Jane Camden, third daughter of the late Mark Dyer Esq., of Wimpole-street. SI On the 18th inst., in the Chael of St. Paul, Wee ' , ti . h e o p Cross, the Rey. Augustu Page Saunders, M.A. F. D' t j . l3i'''ef Master of Charterhouse School, and Chapain to the L r i A r 1, 2 01'' of Oxford, to Emma Frances, daughter of Wm. Wall" . " „of T ll . i o g L h ne ß athe e ie c l, ch lEB , st E qh. s: j e on x fs . tß. , u li s s e i clih-asrqduaHr Russell-square, Howell 1L Francesea ch , Mary,liisq., e s, , Q u f e 7 t d cla °7o' , ter of R. 0. Walk er , E sq., of Bedford-squat -- ------- —-- ----- -- -- • -------- 0 ou t DIED. a t- On the 14th inst., at Gr ea t M a l vern , M ar ianne, gr e of t i l e Sir J. E. Harrington. se, Ir On the 15th inst. Howard Y , at Stoke-place, Wm. Stitt 2cl Life Guards, aged 21. Irs• te r On the 17th i nst., a t Worcester, at an advance d a ge, -' w e rees relict of the late Rey. Digt,} , Smith, a Minor Canon 0f Ca the a the dr ar a Da veli' Oal. 17ili inst., at Dare-eli Bank, Susse! . :, nit , " *fa il*, port, Esq., age , l 74. b eth 1 On th e 18 t h i nst., at H o ll y -terrace, Highgate, Eliza or wife of Mr. J. Doxsey. 0 11 b ills"' On the 18th in t., Anna Marii, wife of Mr. Wm. h ter Holloway and Charterhottsquare, aged 68. or ( the i i t a i t h o , s l r ,th rr. in i s i t i . d , d a u t il o , u i t l h a a r m t. r aogne„dSB3usatinah, eldest aa i r ,.. ,g io. -...........____----- ,-, u o at, Le i ti l tl o o , n s : tr l' a r n i , i i i , te a d t of Middlesex.—Tuesday. August '2l, 184.18. a 7 n 7 d , e s Published ,,,L o I, e b , y r,: l‘ . l . U l l l t 2 D , O s tt. Y: (lol _ the e